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		<title>management in two volumes</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/management-in-two-volumes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my way to a week long training conference nearly a month ago I read two books with the word &#8220;manager&#8221; in the title. With my usual style of choosing books by their cover, I bought these two to read on my way.  I know I am a better manager for going to the conference, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=103&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transition Towns</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/transition-towns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

So I just heard of this thing called Transition Towns, and I am in the process of joining one.  The overall idea is to adjust to life without oil and with climate changes in order to make life &#8220;Post Oil&#8221; livable and even enjoyable.  Read more here.
The first problems which come to mind are our oil dependencies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=96&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Zumbox Paperless Mail</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/zumbox-paperless-mail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paperless Mail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email has been around in my life since 1995, paper mail (snail-mail) has always been around.  I have always thought that paper mail would be with us forever.  I reasoned that records require a solid medium; an item which could be held in ones hand, signed with a pen, and observed with the naked eye. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=88&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>President Bush, Vice President Biden, for a moment.</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/president-bush-vice-president-biden-for-a-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 21:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching the inauguration today I was struck by many things: the peaceful coup that happens every couple of years in the United States, the cooperation between political enemies, and the great pomp in such troubled times.  But the moment I was most humorously intrigued by after Joe Biden took his oath, and before Barack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=87&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Mountain Lion</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/illinois-mountain-lion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My uncle forwarded these pictures to me saying they were taken in East-Central Illinois

Well I hoped it was true.  It&#8217;s not.  But people will forward almost anything.  Some people will, the same people always will it seems.  I received an email saying Obama refused to say the pledge of allegiance or wear an American lapel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=79&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is for real.</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/this-is-for-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Polo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ralph lauren]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would have made an ad like this if I were trying to mock the fashion industry as rediculus and laughable.  But this is something I found as an ad on CNN.com.  This is why the happiest people in the world shop at yard sales and thrift stores: Ralph Lauren and the other name brands [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=76&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email Fraud</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/email-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[419]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nigerian Scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oxfam GB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terry Williams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/?p=69</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if that is a real crime but I just got an email that smacks of the Nigerian 419 Scam.  I replied to it, I hope to hear from Dr. Terry Williams soon reguarding my prize.  Here is the text:
OXFAM INTERNATIONAL
Oxfam House, John Smith Drive,
Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2JY.,
United Kingdom.
Date: 21th July, 2008.
Dear Funds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=69&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Racists</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/obama-and-racists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Current Events]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irony]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is sort of funny sort of deep.
Racists for Obama?
Included is this gem:
it’s perfectly possible to hold a negative view of at least one aspect of African-Americans and yet simultaneously prefer Obama, racial feelings are not as cut and dried — not as black and white — as people often say.”
Posted in Current Current Events, Ethics, Irony, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=66&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Onion or Real</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/onion-or-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Irony]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[joe the plumber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential debate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Onion is a humor news paper and it does it&#8217;s job well.  I read it and am consistently impressed.  I write here and I try to string ideas together coherently, sometimes I do.  I write for Fact Checked, and sometimes I&#8217;m funny, never as funny as the Onion, I don&#8217;t think.
But sometimes I find [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=62&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out With the Old</title>
		<link>http://marcushayes.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/out-with-the-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marcus</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Current Current Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marcus News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Demolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois State University]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walker Hall]]></category>

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This is across the street from the Cornerstone office.  Illinois State University is going to build a student recreation center on this site.  This building was once a dorm, now upperclassmen are forced to live off campus and only freshmen are required to live in the dorms, I think.
The University should have had housing built [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=marcushayes.wordpress.com&blog=2619047&post=58&subd=marcushayes&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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